Exterro Meme Series: Spreadsheets Still?!?
By Tim Rollins
As the saying goes, friends don't let friends use spreadsheets for e-discovery tasks. If you know someone who is using Excel to manage legal holds or document review workflows, you owe them some free advice: Just point them over to exterro.com and we'll take care of the rest! If you're new to e-discovery and don't know where or how to start, a great place is with Exterro's 2nd Edition of the Basics of E-Discovery. Check it out for a great primer on all the key topics! And if you'd rather just have a... Read More
With its innovative single-instance storage architecture, built-in process optimization, and industry-leading artificial intelligence, Exterro Review is transforming the document review process. And now, for a limited time, Exterro is giving you an opportunity to see for yourself for free, with six months free including 5 TB of data storage! Document Review: More Necessary Than Ever As legal governance, risk, and compliance responsibilities increase in importance, privacy regulations, civil litigation, data breach remediation, and internal investigations demand organizations can rapidly: Identify and collect potentially relevant dataReview and analyze documents for responsivenessProduce responsive materials... 
On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) into law. Virginia is the second state to enact a comprehensive state privacy law, following California, yet its substance draws from both California’s laws—the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and the newly enacted California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act (CPRA). The Virginia legislature is the first to enact such a law of its own—the California Legislature enacted the CCPA to preempt a ballot initiative in 2018 (and the CPRA was passed as a ballot initiative... 
Today, legal departments and their leaders have more and wider-reaching concerns than at any time in the past. Not only must they understand their organization’s litigation landscape, but they must also be prepared to deal with security risks and incidents, compliance with multiple layers of privacy regulations, and provide strategic advice to business leadership. Doing so requires staying ahead of trends shaping e-discovery, privacy, and digital forensics, formerly disparate fields that are converging in the discipline of Legal Governance, Risk, and Compliance (Legal GRC). High-level lessons apply to all of these fields... 
Via Vadis, LLC v. Amazon.com, Inc. reiterates the fact that the burden to succeed on spoliation sanctions under FRCP 37(e) is very high. Courts will refer to the business judgment rule if the party accused of spoliating evidence did not act with any bad intent and if the requesting party was not prejudiced. Here the court found that sanctions were not warranted because the data deletion resulted from ordinary and reasonable business processes, any deletion of responsive data was inadvertent, and the deleted data was replaced with other data providing similar... 
For many of us, 2020 and 2021 have felt like lost years—or at least years in limbo. Not so for Exterro. From the integration of privacy products into Exterro’s comprehensive legal GRC platform to the subsequent acquisition of AccessData and its suite of digital forensics solutions, the past two years have seen Exterro experience unprecedented innovation and growth, both in its technology and its business footprint. But new years are always a time for re-assessment, re-invigoration, and fresh starts. 2022 is no different. This week, Exterro’s team has assembled in Frisco, Texas...